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Cool Day Trips

Freelock was approached to build a website focused on the “Top 50” Day Trips from Seattle, based on rankings and reviews from users. Cooldaytrips.com includes a description of each destination, photos, driving distances, accommodation, restaurants and activities. For those wishing to stay longer than a day, the site also includes recommendations on Extended Trips. It’s an extremely useful resource for those planning a trip in the the Pacific Northwest and Washington State.

This site was built for a repeat customer, on a quick turn-around -- the site launched 3 weeks after we began work!

What We've Done

When P5 Group was looking to create a dynamic website, they looked to Freelock Computing to help. Using Drupal as a CMS platform, we created a site with multiple access levels for their wide range of clientele, implemented the use of Panels to help manage a complex CSS layout, and provided P5 Group with a way to reach their clients in new, unique ways.

We have great data for each of our projects and each team member, but it was time to add data visualization for more efficient and “at a glance” reporting. We wanted to know how many different projects we work on in a week, and who spent their time on what. Since we pulled from existing data we can pull the same report for 5 years ago to see how we have evolved.

Littlestar Prints is one of our favorite sites. It combines some powerful drag-and-drop photo editing in the browser with e-commerce. We got to use both of our favorite software packages--Drupal and the Dojo Toolkit.

Freelock was approached by Seattle creative design agency Tether, to build a new website for their client IslandWood. The website included integration with multiple external services while keeping a brochure style site feel.

Freelock developed an informational website for Answers for Elders. Answers for Elders is an online resource for adults caring for elderly parents. We created a membership system for users to comment publicly on articles, a map-based decision guide for retrieving locational information, and example articles for composition purposes.

The Washington Low Income Housing Alliance Action Fund first talked to us about building a new site last October, but they were not ready to proceed. This summer they were finally ready, and used our Base Business Site plan to get a site built and launched quickly.

I recommend you use Linux for your server(s). Mine are so reliable, it shocked me that after years of Microsoft-based expectations, I have no complaints now after many many years experience with Linux servers supporting a mixed Win2K and Apple OSX workstation network. Freelock has really opened my eyes to what I should be expecting from enterprise software. Linux is simply much better than anything Microsoft has done, and even on Microsoft's best day, Microsoft is too expensive, too proprietary and too unreliable. There is just no reason to keep putting ourself through that grief, constant change, and endless high cost.